马兰住不惯美国,定居纽黑文的七八年中,大约有将近一半的时间,她都穿插着回了中国。在中国的日子,她有时回家乡四川小住,有时旅居北京、上海,所到之处,均有她那些文学小圈子内的朋友可访,有书店可转,有茶馆、酒吧可泡,有各方闲人可聚, 在一起纵谈文学或非文学的有趣话题。那都是些连环一般的关系,旧圈子紧套着新圈子, 这一层更可深入到那一层。马兰于是乎盘桓往复其间,整个人如沐春风,每回一次中国, 总是要住到流连忘返的地步。 Malan did not live in the United States, lived in New Haven in the seventy-eight years, about half the time, she was interspersed back to China. In China, she sometimes went back to Sichuan, where she lives, sometimes living in Beijing and Shanghai. All the places she visited were friends of her literary circle, bookstores, teahouse, All parties are unassuming, talking together about the interesting topics of literature or non-literature. It is all about a series of general relations, the old circle tightly fixed a new circle, this layer can be further into that level. In the meantime, Ma Lan lasted endlessly, and the whole country was in full bloom. Every time China once lived, it always had to live indulging in entertaining.